Re: Plone 3.2 User Manual Update

Automating the screenshots is totally cool. It's the editable prose
that we'd like to keep inside the CMS, where it can be worked on by
prose writers who aren't necessarily comfortable with svn and
particular markup schemes.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Jeff Pittman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The screen capture facility would be accomplished, I imagine, with a driver
> script operating on hooks (special codes) in the docs to drive the browser
> and captures -- or such a script developed in parallel.
>
> Regarding complication of such a system, having a driver system in python is
> not a bad thing -- we are a python house, ultimately. :)
>
> And, I wouldn't want us to shy away from innovation.  Such an approach
> inherently requires an intelligent system, for which we are fully capable of
> designing and maintaining.  It would be like other complicated python
> scripts I use on the command line -- a chore to build, but once they work,
> they become workhorse utilities.
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Pittman
> http://www.geojeff.org
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:18 PM, JoAnna Springsteen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jeff Pittman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Also, at a recent sprint, there was an exploration of automation for
>> > screen
>> > captures for the user manual and other documentation needs.
>>
>> Yup. Seems like we've been talking about this since the PSU symposium.
>> I know Paul Everitt had thoughts on how this could be done too.
>> Not sure if anything ever came of it though.
>> Would still be interested in hearing how we could accomplish this
>> without making it hugely complicated.
>
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